Re: What happens to all those thousands of unsolicited queries
And here's the original email by his wife announcing the seminar:
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To the passionate screenwriters & filmmakers who have reached out recently to my husband,
Over the last decade my husband, Chris Fenton, has shared with me the anguish he feels each and every time a writer sends him unsolicited materials in the hopes of gaining representation. Why? Because 16 years ago my husband arrived in Los Angeles as a writer with the dream of turning his passion into a career, and he knows personally how difficult that process can be. He also knows that there aren't enough hours in the day or days in the week for him to personally help each and every writer who reaches out to him.
Accordingly, Chris began to compare the dream of making it big in Hollywood to winning the lottery. Meeting the right people, learning the system, gaining the correct experience, honing his talents and working exceptionally hard, were all ways he could better his odds and guarantee himself a "winning ticket."
His strategy to best achieve success in Hollywood --- the goal of owning all the tickets to ensure winning the lottery --- Chris utilizes every day in his professional life in an effort to move his career and his clients' careers forward in the ever-changing and challenging entertainment business. Over the years he has shared advice with students in undergraduate, graduate and alumni film programs at Cornell, UCLA, and UCLA, with younger students attending schools in LAUSD, Florida, and Connecticut, international film students and professionals in China, and with attendees at seminars or podcasts sponsored by Hollywood publications such as Fade In, Screenwriters Online, Script Magazine and Creative Screenwriting.
Now Chris is offering his advice in a more advanced and highly focused forum to those who have fully committed to a career of writing in the entertainment business. This intensive, unique, one-day seminar will allow each of you to walk away with a better understanding of how to achieve success in the highly competitive career of screenwriting in Hollywood. The seminar will take place Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Los Angeles Airport (LAX) Radisson Hotel from 9 am - 5 pm.
For more information or to register for the event, please go to www.ownallthetickets.com. Along with the seminar's specific content and agenda, you will find Chris' biography as well as extensive press materials on he & his company H2F Entertainment.
I look forward to seeing you in March.
Best wishes,
Jennifer Fenton
And here's the original email by his wife announcing the seminar:
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To the passionate screenwriters & filmmakers who have reached out recently to my husband,
Over the last decade my husband, Chris Fenton, has shared with me the anguish he feels each and every time a writer sends him unsolicited materials in the hopes of gaining representation. Why? Because 16 years ago my husband arrived in Los Angeles as a writer with the dream of turning his passion into a career, and he knows personally how difficult that process can be. He also knows that there aren't enough hours in the day or days in the week for him to personally help each and every writer who reaches out to him.
Accordingly, Chris began to compare the dream of making it big in Hollywood to winning the lottery. Meeting the right people, learning the system, gaining the correct experience, honing his talents and working exceptionally hard, were all ways he could better his odds and guarantee himself a "winning ticket."
His strategy to best achieve success in Hollywood --- the goal of owning all the tickets to ensure winning the lottery --- Chris utilizes every day in his professional life in an effort to move his career and his clients' careers forward in the ever-changing and challenging entertainment business. Over the years he has shared advice with students in undergraduate, graduate and alumni film programs at Cornell, UCLA, and UCLA, with younger students attending schools in LAUSD, Florida, and Connecticut, international film students and professionals in China, and with attendees at seminars or podcasts sponsored by Hollywood publications such as Fade In, Screenwriters Online, Script Magazine and Creative Screenwriting.
Now Chris is offering his advice in a more advanced and highly focused forum to those who have fully committed to a career of writing in the entertainment business. This intensive, unique, one-day seminar will allow each of you to walk away with a better understanding of how to achieve success in the highly competitive career of screenwriting in Hollywood. The seminar will take place Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Los Angeles Airport (LAX) Radisson Hotel from 9 am - 5 pm.
For more information or to register for the event, please go to www.ownallthetickets.com. Along with the seminar's specific content and agenda, you will find Chris' biography as well as extensive press materials on he & his company H2F Entertainment.
I look forward to seeing you in March.
Best wishes,
Jennifer Fenton
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